The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and
finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy
to govern an empire, and said to his companion, "This man surely
will be emperor; he is so early."
- Nicolas Caussin

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of
our years, but adds likewise to their number; and not only
enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same measure of
time, but increases also the measure.
- Charles Caleb Colton

No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man
may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in
forty--let him rise early, that he may have the day before him,
and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it
on two sorts of acquaintance only--those by whom something may be
got, and those from whom something maybe learnt.
- Charles Caleb Colton

The difference between rising at five and seven o'clock in the
morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to
bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to ten
additional years to a man's life.
- Philip Doddridge

Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and
active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and
happiness.
- Timothy Flint

With charwoman such early hours agree,
And sweeps, that earn betimes their bit and sup;
But I'm no climbing boy, and need not be,
All up--all up!
So here I'll lie, my morning calls deferring,
Till something nearer to the stroke of noon;
A man that's fond precociously of stirring,
Must be a spoon.
- Thomas Hood

O, there is a charm
Which morning has, that gives the brow of age
A smack of earth, and makes the lip of youth
Shed perfume exquisite. Expect it not,
Ye who till noon upon a down bed lie, Indulging feverous sleep.
- Rev. James Hurdis

He that from childhood has made rising betimes familiar to him
will not waste the best part of his life in drowsiness.
- John Locke (1)

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning,
endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind, and
consider that you have to do the business of a man; and that
action is both beneficial and the end of your being.
- Marcus Aurelius (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)

Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and
desk.
- Christopher Smart

Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most
invigorating and most delightful hours of then day are commonly
spent in bed; though it is the evident intention of nature that
we should enjoy and profit by them.
- Robert Southey

Is there aught in sleep can charm the wise,
To lie in dead oblivion, losing half
The fleeting moments of too short a life;
Total extinction of the enlighten'd soul?
Wilder'd and tossing thro' distemper'd dreams?
Who would in such a gloomy state remain
Longer than nature craves; when ev'ry muse
And every blooming pleasure wait without,
To bless the wildly devious morning walk?
- James Thomson (1)

Who would in such a gloomy state remain
Longer than nature craves; when ev'ry muse
And every blooming pleasure wait without,
To bless the wildly devious morning walk?
- James Thomson (1)

Few ever lived to a great age, and fewer still ever became
distinguished; who were not in the habit of early using.
- John Todd